The more I see of this game the more I'm liking it. And Vergil is no exception! He looks like he'll make for a great villain, with this freedom fighter 'anything for the greater good' sort of arc that'll inevitably lead him to facing off against Dante. It's no Shakespeare, but it'll make for both a better and more fleshed out character motivation than ''deh, open demon portal for power''.

I'm not a Devil May Cry fanboy nor have I ever played DMC, but the more I see of this I keep thinking this looks badass and I'm loving it. In terms of character design (physical appearance alone) this new Dante looks a lot cooler than the old Dante and the voice actor perfectly matches the look and gives the new Dante this kind of swagger.

Again, I haven't played any DMC prior and nothing in those games really interest me to go back and play them. There's just something about this one that seems like its going to be awesome.

This is going to sound like a total copy of somebody else's comment, but I've never played or been remotely interested in a Devil May Cry game before, but upon clicking on this out of sheer boredom I really liked what I saw. Dante seems to be walking the delicate line between real emotional human and total badass without slipping into JRPG emo or gruff hollywood roid machine. Good delivery by the voice actor. The aesthetic and setting are cool, but Virgil is kinda meh for me.

This looks awesome. I am really digging the look of this reboot and I'm a long time fan of the DMC games. The combat has always been great but Dante stopped being cool in DMC4, Nero was much better as a character. They just made Dante annoying as opposed to badass like in DMC1. Is anyone else getting a Tyler Durden vibe from new Dante? Very cool.

I am a huge fan of Devil May Cry and have been since that first game first released around ten years ago. DmC looks awesome and I honestly can't wait to play it. Still not a huge fan of the new character designs, but it's mainly their douchey haircuts, so whatever. It's too bad that there are still so many hardcore DMC fans who are unwilling to give Ninja Theory a chance.

Unless there are some extremely negative reviews out the gate, I plan on buying this launch day.

I miss junkie Dante. This Paul Walker-esque pretty boy is just boring looking. Luckily the voice work elevates him somewhat, but it would've been a far cooler contrast to have his "twin" show up and there be some sense of their wildly separate paths - which I can only assume was what they were originally going for with Dante's worn, effed up face.

@SimonM7: Yeah I thought that was kinda disappointing as well. I am overall really curious as to how the ideas for this game came together, where, why and how they decided to reel it in and whatnot. With a bit of luck we might learn more about this after the game launches.

I miss junkie Dante. This Paul Walker-esque pretty boy is just boring looking. Luckily the voice work elevates him somewhat, but it would've been a far cooler contrast to have his "twin" show up and there be some sense of their wildly separate paths - which I can only assume was what they were originally going for with Dante's worn, effed up face.

NT Dante has always had that pretty boy face of his. It's true, the announcement trailer shown him in a pretty messy state, but it also shown him looking just like he does now when he was butting out a cig on a demon's head. His face does look a little... leaner in the announcement trailer, but otherwise he mostly looks the same.

I imagine Dante getting himself battered, bloodied and malnourished will still play a part in the story anyway, maybe as a part of a prologue or something.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

I think that was more in reference to the classic "sacrifice the big picture for the girl" plot going on.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

I think that was more in reference to the classic "sacrifice the big picture for the girl" plot going on.

It's still not what I'd consider a spoiler, though. It's more of a story premise, it's apart of the promotional material and again, if that is what he considers to be a spoiler then it's his own fault for watching the trailer in the first place.

I don't understand the bitching about this, it looks better than every other DMC game I've seen

You take any game that has a very distinct feel and completely overhaul it to the point where it's barely identifiable and see how any community takes it. No lock on, two dodge buttons, stance options, a dedicated launcher button, new slightly weird floaty enemy juggle physics, ridiculously simplified, horribly long aerial combos along with a lot of animations (Especially Rain Storm and the new Eryx gauntlets) that are ugly as sin and cumbersome and a major tone shift that tries to be edgy but just comes off throwing expletives recklessly for it.

You may as well take Unreal Tournament and make it into a Call of Duty game for how much of a gameplay departure it's taking.

@killacam said:

do DMC fans actually like 4? everything i've seen from this looks so so much better than that attempt.

More than you realize. There were lots of fun things you could do with Lucifer, Nero's summoned swords and some of the more interesting momentum quirks:

@Yummylee: I agree that it's not a huge deal, but it seems more like a plot point (and probably late in the game too) than the premise, hence, spoiler. I guess it's just not a huge deal to me because I've only recently gotten the least bit interested in this game, but if I was a big DMC fan, I'd probably think that was revealing too much. I feel like I can tell you how most of the game plays out now, after watching this trailer.